Artist News
Essay Inside: Blek le Rat "30 Year Retrospective"
I have written an essay for this very special book.
http://www.artpublishingltd.com/new/blek/
Blek le Rat, the “godfather” of stencil graffiti commemorates 30 years creating art on the streets with the launch of new retrospective from Art Publishing, Ltd.
Xavier Prou a.k.a. Blek le Rat, the Parisian-born artist practicing stencil graffiti since the late 1970’s, will be celebrating his 30-year anniversary of creating art on the streets later this year with a highly anticipated book launch at Art Basel Miami Beach 2011 and gallery exhibitions throughout the United States and Europe. Blek le Rat is one of the most prolific stencil graffiti artists of his generation, applying his trademark rats and iconic imagery around the world since New Year’s Eve, 1981. His work has…
Read moreAdam5100 Exhibit Sneak Peak
A few photographs of Adam5100's latest work at the Guerrero Gallery.
From cut-out to spray-through to sewn-up!
New Archive for Rocky Villanueva
Thanks to SFGate.com, I know who painted these pigeons...
Rocky gets a new achive in the San Francisco Artists section of the collection.
http://www.stencilarchive.org/archives/index.php/San_Francisco/Artists_…
18 June : Fresque Monumentale by Jef Aerosol (Paris)
REALISATION D'UNE FRESQUE MONUMENTALE DE 350 m2 du 11 au 18 juin 2011
PARIS 4e - Place Stravinsky
La proposition de l'artiste, soutenue activement par Madame Dominique Bertinotti, Maire du 4ème arrondissement, est une douce injonction à la quiétude, au respect, à la réduction du bruit au cœur de la ville.
Pour Jef AEROSOL cette œuvre , véritable prouesse technique réalisée avec la collaboration et le mécénat de DOUBLET, suggère le mystère, un appel au silence, une proposition de calme, de pause urbaine, de sérénité, dune certaine « zénitude ».
C'est aussi un questionnement sur le stress, le bouillonnement parisien, la qualité de la vie en milieu urbain, etc.
Il s'agit d'aider les passants à écouter la ville, la mélodie urbaine, le rythme et les pulsations que livre le cœur de la cité…
Jeremy Novy - Queer Street Art
A Movement Defaced: Queer Street Art Fights for Legitimacy
By Jonathan Curiel
published: June 15, 2011
Jonathan Curiel on A Movement Defaced: Queer Street Art Fights for Legitmacy
Cover photo by Michael Cuffe/Warholian.
Inside his art studio in San Francisco's Bayview District, Jeremy Novy surrounds himself with the stencilwork that has burnished his reputation as a street artist of note. Of course, the koi are there. Even people who don't know his name know his aquatic vertebrates — colorful creatures that can be found on sidewalks across San Francisco, most prominently at Market and Laguna streets, where scores of the fish swirl outside the Orbit Room. In Novy's studio, though, the animals are crowded out by representations of people. Men,…
Read more20 March: Blek in SF
Blek le Rat, Free University Art School EventSunday, March 20, 2011 – 2PM to 4PM
Viracocha
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998 Valencia Street (at 21st Street)
San Francisco, CA
Course Description:
The Free University Art School is very fortunate, and proud to present the very prolific street artist Blek le Rat on his journey around the world. He stops here with us for an extensive two hour presentation, sharing his masterful stencil art with the people of The Free University of San Francisco. Blek will tell his story, share his insurgent spirit, show his work and may even create some stencil art live in person.
Come early / limited room!
Bio:
Blek le Rat was born in Boulogne-Billancourt, Paris in 1951. He is considered by most in the graffiti world to be the godfather of stencil graffiti art. He studied painting and architecture. He began his artwork in… Read more
[u]: Link for ghalamDAR (IR)
Stencil Arhcive has updated the link for Iranian artist ghalamDAR.
go here to see and read more: http://www.ghalamdar.deviantart.com/
Banksy Begins Oscars Media Blitz In LA
Someone randomly told me today that Banksy was up again in San Francisco. Huh? In the wind and rain? This explains the confusion....
Maintaining the Balance: Purchase a Print, Another One (Stencil) Goes Up on the Streets
Maintaining The Balance from Dave the Chimp http://www.davethechimp.co.uk/home.php
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Aim:
To balance the output of street pieces and products for sale
To remain authentic while being commercially viable
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Maintaining The Balance - Project 3
Customers are invited to purchase a print which funds an identical street piece.
The artist produces two identical prints. One is sent to the customer, the other is pasted in the street.
The print includes the customers name. The customer becomes both a patron of art for the community and an accomplice in an act of “vandalism”.
The artist and customer both share the “fame” aquired with “getting their name up”, and the risk involved with the act of doing so.
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Print specifications
Maintaining The Balance - Project 3
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Read moreBuy "The Identity of Banksy" on ebay [u]
could it be a hoax??
http://cgi.ebay.com/Identity-Banksy-/260720844294
current bid: $999,999
ENDS: Jan 19, 201107:22:22 PST
If you win this auction I will mail you a piece of paper revealing the true identity of "Banksy".